👋 Becca could use your help finding a new community/marketing role. UK based requiring sponsorship. She's awesome.
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🌤️ Community around the web
- A Report Card on the U.S. Local Economy Movement — Main Street Journal
- You Don’t Build Community. You Design the Next Step — Mark Masters
- The Community AI Framework — Bill Johnston
- The Moderator-Free Fantasy — Jillian Bejtlich
- Hope as a Framework to Promote Early Relational Health — Einhorn Collaborative
- Where Has Social Media Gone? — danah boyd
- The Internet has no benches — Spencer Chang
- Before GitHub — Armin Ronacher
- Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub — Mitchell Hashimotto
- Forums Are Dead. So I Filled Mine with AI Bots!. 🫠
- The Internet Felt Like This in 1994. — Douglas Rushkoff
📰 News
As X shuts down Communities, Acorn debuts an alternative that puts creators in control | TechCrunch
Acorn lets organizations build and run their own online communities using decentralized tech, with custom feeds, moderation, and analytics tools.
Sarah Perez
AI is not replacing artists but is changing how they work, research says
Analysis of Gallup polling data suggested that AI was not reducing the workload for even the most AI-exposed creators.
Tom Chivers
How journalism is shifting from print logic to conversational media - Editor and Publisher
For more than five centuries, journalism has operated in a world shaped by the logic of print — linear storytelling, institutional authority and the permanence of the written word. But the rise of social media, the creator economy and AI-driven conversation tools is pushing the industry toward something far older: a culture shaped by voice, dialogue and personality. The shift challenges long-held assumptions about how audiences consume and trust news. In this commentary, Chad Davis explores Jeff Jarvis’ theory of the “Gutenberg Parenthesis” and what journalism’s return to a more conversational media environment could mean for the future of the industry.
Chad Davis for E&P Magazine
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